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# Re: Connection Redirection?

- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:24:33 PST
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- Cc: abakun@scinc.com
- In-Reply-To: <9602221323.aa25380@forney.scinc.com> (message from ThwartedEfforts on Thu, 22 Feb 96 14:18:36 EST)

    >At 10:39 AM 2/22/96 PST, you wrote:
    >>>Agreed.  I can not think of a specific instance where this would be useful,
    >>>and in most cases, it would only confuse the user.
    >>
    >>To me, a lot of the fun of the MOO is letting people do things that they
    >>could never do in real-life.  And switching places with another person
    >>is precisely one of those things.
    >
    >Isn't this what morphs are for?

    Er, no... they're totally different.  You're not really taking on the
    persona of another character...  there's no *risk* with a morph.
    Switching players with someone else IS a risk... it's scarey and
    weird...

    >And if everyone is taking on the body
    >(object) another person, you can never be sure who you are talking to.

    Yes, indeed.

    >Are people really that interested in doing stuff like that?

    Well, I am!

    >And if you did a "Freaky Friday" MOO, it would never be a place where people could talk to
    >others about personal stuff, you wouldn't know if who was on the recieving
    >end.

    I wasn't planning to swap players wholesale... just whilest inside one room...
    with warnings...

    >The swappers would have to play each other really well.  Not to
    >mention access to the coveted .email_address -- after all, I wouldn't want
    >to be harassed by someone who swapped player objects with me.

    Right -- you'd really have to know the people you swapped with.

    >Personally, I'd use it as much as I use morphs, which is never.

    I don't use 'em either even though I spent a lot of work creating
    a neat-o morph feature.  But people eat up morphing.

    >You might as well just set everyone's .password to a false value.

    ???  Don't see this.

    There are other possibilities if you can remap connections...

    For example, remapping people to a simplified character where you have rewritten a
    lot of the verbs...  for programmed instruction for example.

        /t

    Tom Ritchford     tom@mvision.com, tom@weirdos.com

    Verge's "Little Idiot" -- Music for the mentally peculiar.
    1-800-WEIRDOS           http://www.fly.net/~tom/verge.html

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